{"id":115786,"date":"2021-03-02T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T08:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115786"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T08:13:22","slug":"ethiopia-postpones-voters-registration-for-general-elections-citing-regional-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115786","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia postpones voters&#8217; registration for general elections, citing regional delays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ethiopia-to-hold-elections-in-june-2021\/a-56059228#\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/55725859_303.jpg\" alt=\"Abiy Ahmed Ali\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADDIS ABABA, March 2 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Ethiopia&#8217;s agency to manage elections on Monday announced postponement of voters&#8217; registration for the country&#8217;s sixth general elections this year, citing challenges like delayed support from regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a press statement, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia said the registration is re-scheduled to start on March 25 and last until April 23. Previously, it had been slated to fall on March 1-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In regard to the reasons, the independent institution cited delays in opening constituency offices, lack of transportation for the distribution of election materials, and the &#8220;thorough and time-consuming&#8221; process of recruiting independent constituency officers, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia planned to hold its general elections in August 2020. In June last year, its upper house of parliament approved a recommendation to postpone the elections over concerns for COVID-19. Later in December, the electoral board tentatively set June 5, 2021 as the date for the elections. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018 ADDIS ABABA, March 2 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Ethiopia&#8217;s agency to manage elections on Monday announced postponement of voters&#8217; registration for the country&#8217;s sixth general elections this year, citing challenges like delayed support from regions. In a press statement, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia said the registration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}